Speaker 1: What's it's a lip service. I'm Angela Ye, I'm g
Speaker 1: g McGuire. I'm Lauri, y'all, and we have a new
Speaker 1: beyond lip service. Uh, I guess this is where I'm
Speaker 1: supposed to introduce myself. Yeah, press off the press out
Speaker 1: of the valley, back on the West coast, Tyler level,
Speaker 1: that's a nice you have. Yeah. Oh this I just
Speaker 1: I just threw it on. You know, now, Tyler, you
Speaker 1: have such an interesting story to me, because it's not
Speaker 1: like you. Your whole life was like one day I'm
Speaker 1: going to be an actor, and that's not how things
Speaker 1: happened for you know. So, um, you know my uh,
Speaker 1: you know, my way into the game was a little
Speaker 1: bit unorthodox for sure. Um. I came up right outside
Speaker 1: of Philly. I went through a string of failures. Um
Speaker 1: thought I was gonna be you know, playing football on
Speaker 1: Sunday in the NFL. Didn't work out like that, you know,
Speaker 1: But I learned a lot. I learned a lot from
Speaker 1: those losses. But you know, when I went through the
Speaker 1: string of losses, I moved out West just because I
Speaker 1: kind of wanted to start fresh. I was about twenty
Speaker 1: three when I graduated from college and Uh, I came
Speaker 1: out West and actually I kind of just found my
Speaker 1: way into the gym. My cousin was a boxer, so
Speaker 1: I was just hanging around the gym and um, you know,
Speaker 1: if I'm I got a person kind of finessed a
Speaker 1: personal training job and then, um, you know LA is
Speaker 1: very saturated. Yeah, l A is very saturated with people
Speaker 1: in the business. So you know, just hanging around it
Speaker 1: for a few months, probably like maybe months two or three.
Speaker 1: Someone had to after the audition, Um, this is probably
Speaker 1: about ten audition for something small, and this is about
Speaker 1: ten years ago. Um, but I booked that role and
Speaker 1: that was kind of the start of me being intrigued
Speaker 1: by something new. So you know, at that point I
Speaker 1: started to apply myself. You know, I got the head
Speaker 1: shots for myself into an acting class and you know,
Speaker 1: you did the initial steps that actors try to, you know,
Speaker 1: do And ten years later, this is what I've been Um,
Speaker 1: you know, this is what I've been applying myself to
Speaker 1: and this this is my passion. I found it in
Speaker 1: an unorthodox way though. Sure. I actually found out that
Speaker 1: you was involved in the box and after you called
Speaker 1: out oh boy, that knocked out Nate Robinson, Jake Paul,
Speaker 1: I really would love to see you knock him out.
Speaker 1: What do we have to do, what we have to
Speaker 1: do to make that happen, Like if there a petition
Speaker 1: we could sign and you better knock him out because
Speaker 1: that would be awful. I'm doing this for p Valley
Speaker 1: and then now it's the TI Challenge. No, no, you
Speaker 1: ain't gotta worry about that. But I'm listen. If there
Speaker 1: is a petition, I'll be we'll we'll be the first
Speaker 1: to sign to us for right here. So but um, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: you know, I uh, for for whatever reason, you know,
Speaker 1: I couldn't really articulated, but for whatever reason, I ain't
Speaker 1: like what I saw, you know what I mean? And
Speaker 1: you know, to see him, to see him do that.
Speaker 1: First of all, I gotta give my hats off to
Speaker 1: both both of those men. You know. I guess we
Speaker 1: can call them fighters, even though they're not professional fighters,
Speaker 1: but they're they're they're stepping in the ring as if
Speaker 1: they are, So hats off to them for doing that.
Speaker 1: But it's like when you know the game, you know,
Speaker 1: if that was a sanction about that would never go down, right.
Speaker 1: You don't have heavyweights fighting middleweights you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: But but because this is like a YouTube type of
Speaker 1: thing and no one's really gonna check Jake doing that.
Speaker 1: You know, they're just in it for the money that
Speaker 1: they allowed it to go down. But you know, me
Speaker 1: being a part of that sport and having the background
Speaker 1: to go ahead and do that, Um, you know, I
Speaker 1: think I think he needs to pick on someone who
Speaker 1: likes to fight back, someone who wants to you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, stepping there and ice him real quick,
Speaker 1: so you know, you know, you know what's funny. Though
Speaker 1: I was popping, I was popping my uh hold on,
Speaker 1: we allowed to we allowed to be ourselves. We have
Speaker 1: the curse. I was popping my ship the other day,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, I had noticed that he came
Speaker 1: out maybe a few days after he started calling everybody out.
Speaker 1: You know, I had noticed. I didn't noticed he didn't
Speaker 1: call he didn't call me out. If he's smart, if
Speaker 1: he's smart, he'll just let it go because you know,
Speaker 1: if he sees the dollar signs and steps into the ring,
Speaker 1: he might uh, he might see his first loss. I
Speaker 1: don't know, as he lost yet. I feel like he's
Speaker 1: been doing this for a little bit now. He only
Speaker 1: like four fights, I think, But I believed you when
Speaker 1: whatever you said you was gonna do, I believe. You know.
Speaker 1: The thing is I got I got the family, like
Speaker 1: the boxing camp that would help me for pairing for that.
Speaker 1: I think where those people get into trouble is that
Speaker 1: they don't take it seriously. You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I've seen I've seen a little bit of Nate Robinson's camp,
Speaker 1: and he kind of, you know, he he didn't look
Speaker 1: like he was really prepared to go in there, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. So I don't want to put
Speaker 1: it all on him. It's really it's really the camp's
Speaker 1: job to get the fight already. So one thing that
Speaker 1: I'm comfortable with is, you know, having again, you know,
Speaker 1: the cousins of the family, having the boxing camp to
Speaker 1: really prepare me for something like that, you know, outside
Speaker 1: of what I'm you know, normally ready to do anyway.
Speaker 1: But you know, he wouldn't understanding how long three minutes
Speaker 1: is until you're three minutes trying to fight and stand
Speaker 1: up in the ring. Yeah, it's a it's a really
Speaker 1: tough it's a really tough sport. That's why they always
Speaker 1: you know, they have that saying, you know, you play basketball,
Speaker 1: you played football, you're gonna play boxing? Yeah you don't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: some thing about when you were a personal trainer. To
Speaker 1: flash back to that question that has to happen, right,
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask how many women would hire you
Speaker 1: just because they look good? Yeah, you know that's not
Speaker 1: that's not for me to say because I don't really know.
Speaker 1: I never asked them. But here's what I did notice.
Speaker 1: I didn't notice that about probably like of my clients
Speaker 1: were it was it was a female base. Um, but
Speaker 1: that was but that was for me. But that was
Speaker 1: also like even if I look at you know, I
Speaker 1: was mentioned to my cousin who's a boxing name is Leon.
Speaker 1: He owns a few gems out here. They're called glove Works. Um,
Speaker 1: he actually owns one in uh in New York too.
Speaker 1: But even even the client base at the gym is like,
Speaker 1: uh female. So it's like, you know, it's interesting something
Speaker 1: of a sport like boxing, how it attracts like the
Speaker 1: ladies like that. You know that there I see the
Speaker 1: ladies in there kicking ass and whatnot. But you know,
Speaker 1: to get back to your your question, it's probably like
Speaker 1: nine of the uh my client base was female though,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, knock a bitch out, so
Speaker 1: that I used to do that thing for that purpose.
Speaker 1: So I think women do that also because when I
Speaker 1: did it, because I wanted to be able to defend
Speaker 1: myself in case something happens, because you know, you walk
Speaker 1: by yourself, somebody comes up on you, you gotta fight
Speaker 1: somebody up. You want to at least know how you
Speaker 1: are able to defend yourself. And I was way better
Speaker 1: at me and J J. Mby did it together and
Speaker 1: I was definitely way better than him. You know, I
Speaker 1: got a lot of UM I have. I have lady friends,
Speaker 1: and you know, say if we're um well pre COVID,
Speaker 1: you know, back when we were all you know, if
Speaker 1: we were out with something like that, or someone's going
Speaker 1: to the car, you know, I would make sure they
Speaker 1: get to their car, you know what I'm saying. Or
Speaker 1: I would make sure they get out or in in
Speaker 1: the venue properly. And you know, a lot of it
Speaker 1: was just because of that, Like you know, I kind
Speaker 1: of I kind of empathize and feel what Angelie was
Speaker 1: talking about because you know, it's just it's just a
Speaker 1: scary place out there. If you don't know how to
Speaker 1: defend yourself, especially for um, you know, a woman like solo,
Speaker 1: just you know, running around the world by itself. So
Speaker 1: I I implore everybody to take a couple of lessons too,
Speaker 1: because it's always nice to um. It's always a piece
Speaker 1: of my know how to how to put them together.
Speaker 1: You know. Angela convinced me to go to Rumble for
Speaker 1: something with ye. But it was a midnight boxing class
Speaker 1: and I was so tired because it was late. It
Speaker 1: wasn't Yeah, it was nice, it was nice, but I
Speaker 1: wanted to drink at the same time. I'm like, wait,
Speaker 1: it's like two eggs doesn't go together. It seemed like
Speaker 1: drinking time, not boxing time to me. But you're you're
Speaker 1: dedicated for getting in there at twelve am. Ship, Thank you.
Speaker 1: So are you an only child? I remember I read
Speaker 1: that somewhere and you said you said you grew up
Speaker 1: outside of Philly. I'm actually from Philly, So what specifically
Speaker 1: I probably do? Yeah? So I was. I was born
Speaker 1: in Abington. You know, I was raised in like really
Speaker 1: Bucks County area, So I bounced around Bucks County, um, Duelstown, Warranton,
Speaker 1: Worcester a pretty much pretty much Bucks County is definitely Um,
Speaker 1: like the white area I had, you know. So it
Speaker 1: was interesting. You know, I grew up um probably until
Speaker 1: like middle school, it was all white, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. So I'm about I'm a biracial man, so
Speaker 1: I was always growing up. I was always you know,
Speaker 1: too black for the white kids, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I remember I remember in second grade one of the
Speaker 1: best friends, Peter Samuel's, and we were riding home on
Speaker 1: the bus together. He said, uh, he said, hey, Tyler, Um,
Speaker 1: do you know do you know what the nigger is?
Speaker 1: And I said uh, And I was like yeah. I
Speaker 1: was like you know again you know, growing up in
Speaker 1: that white area, I was not prippy to this information yet,
Speaker 1: see what I'm saying. I didn't know, you know again,
Speaker 1: only child too. It's like I had a big brother,
Speaker 1: big sister like school me to what was going on.
Speaker 1: So I was like, um, you know, no, no, um,
Speaker 1: and he was like, uh, well that's where you are.
Speaker 1: And then you know, I got all the bus went
Speaker 1: home and it was interesting. It was like he was
Speaker 1: really he was really informing me. He wasn't trying to
Speaker 1: be exactly, that's just how that area was, you know.
Speaker 1: And then I and then I got older, and then
Speaker 1: I um um, I went to I lived in Vegas
Speaker 1: for a random year, but I moved out there in
Speaker 1: like ninth grade. I went the Foothill and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, the whole school was black. And now all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, I was. I was like, I was
Speaker 1: a light I was a light skin, you know, white
Speaker 1: for the black kids and too white for the black kids. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I was like, you know, I had an interesting, um,
Speaker 1: I have an interesting like like perspective grown up in
Speaker 1: that in that realm. You know, you get a black school,
Speaker 1: they call me white boy, you like, with the hell
Speaker 1: that's something that we can Unfortunately, all somem relate to
Speaker 1: Angela's half Asian Glorios cam Puerto Rican. Both my parents
Speaker 1: are mixed. Sod was white when she was younger. I
Speaker 1: was the other truth I was at a point of time.
Speaker 1: It wasn't when I was younger. It was in my
Speaker 1: early twenties. I went through this phase where I really
Speaker 1: connected with white people and I had a connection I had.
Speaker 1: I had a serious connection with white people. And I
Speaker 1: was music and I what was it was? It was
Speaker 1: my surroundings. I was dancing at I was dancing at
Speaker 1: the Lila's in Philly. Oh yeah, I was dancing at
Speaker 1: the Lilas and when I saw down Tyler, you said,
Speaker 1: you know where that? So you've been to? The Lilas
Speaker 1: is like the premier gentlemen's club, and it's right next
Speaker 1: to the US. It's like your old city, right yeah, Landing, Yes,
Speaker 1: didn't you have to know every strip club to do
Speaker 1: your role in pe Valty And know I'm joking you
Speaker 1: did a lot of took it very serious. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: took it serious, right. Yeah. Well I'm a method actress,
Speaker 1: so you know I had to act. Are you good?
Speaker 1: Are you good at throw my money in the strip club?
Speaker 1: Because I feel like that's also something that like take
Speaker 1: some you have appearance. I'm not good at it. Trying
Speaker 1: to teach me. Yeah, I've been throwing the whole thing
Speaker 1: and pumped up she making it. Speaking of pe Valley,
Speaker 1: I am actually very close friends with Virgo and Simone
Speaker 1: who played extra extra and also on Brazil Brazil. We
Speaker 1: all worked at Magic City together. Um, and Virgo was
Speaker 1: one of my really really really really really closest friends
Speaker 1: in my entire life. Um. Yeah, we're actually uh currently
Speaker 1: cast it on a reality show on WeTV together. So
Speaker 1: she literally just left my house and she'll probably be
Speaker 1: here before we end. So she comes in, I'll I'll
Speaker 1: tell yeah. But they talked so how real how realists?
Speaker 1: How realist? P Valley for your like when you watched
Speaker 1: the show because I'm coming from me, Well, um, of course,
Speaker 1: since I'm so close to them, and uh, Simone actually
Speaker 1: she was the one who ended up being pregnant at
Speaker 1: the end. You guys, she's the She was actually working
Speaker 1: behind the scenes to help authenticate the script, so to say. Um,
Speaker 1: as well as being an actress dancer, so um and
Speaker 1: with it was four girls and total who were actually
Speaker 1: really strippers in real life, so they were able to help,
Speaker 1: you know, make sure that everything went the way it's
Speaker 1: supposed to go. Um. I absolutely love everything about the show.
Speaker 1: Y'all know that. Um, I was like O D obsessed
Speaker 1: And it was wasn't just the fact that I'm a
Speaker 1: former stripper and that my friends were acting on the show,
Speaker 1: but it was really authentic. Um. A lot of people
Speaker 1: were like, oh, that's not Atlanta strip clubs, but it
Speaker 1: wasn't supposed to be. It was Mississippi, you know, So
Speaker 1: like the slang and and and everything, and the words
Speaker 1: and everything that they used in the way that they
Speaker 1: went about things um to me it was perfect, Like
Speaker 1: it was really really really good And now I left
Speaker 1: the show. But G G O D S Like when
Speaker 1: I tell you every time I go to the house,
Speaker 1: if I go to the house right now, the valley
Speaker 1: is on it, I'm like, you're watching this again? She
Speaker 1: watched She must have watched it fifty times. The who
Speaker 1: I probably did. I probably did no cat yeah and
Speaker 1: watched this new Yeah. I said. It wasn't for utility
Speaker 1: to be castid on that show because obviously when you
Speaker 1: were first filming it, you never know how successful something's
Speaker 1: gonna be. No, yeah, I think you know, first of all,
Speaker 1: it's a blessing to be to have a job, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. We all know what it's like
Speaker 1: to be to work in this entertainment industry. It's a
Speaker 1: very fickle one. You know, sometimes you're hot, sometimes you're cold,
Speaker 1: and it's like, you know, to have a steady job
Speaker 1: is always a blessing. So it was. It was nice too.
Speaker 1: It was nice to work. But I think, you know,
Speaker 1: a show like this is probably something I would watch
Speaker 1: even if I wasn't on it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It's really got, it's really got its thumb on the
Speaker 1: post of our culture. So you know, I remember when
Speaker 1: I got the call for it. I was, you know,
Speaker 1: I was super excited because here I was being able
Speaker 1: to work on something that was really it's it's very um,
Speaker 1: it's very like deep difficult material, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: But those types of roles, that type of material is
Speaker 1: what really you know, strengthens or or sharpens your tool
Speaker 1: as an actor, right, you really get get to work
Speaker 1: on your chops to call it. Um. So I was
Speaker 1: really excited to do that. But it's also you know,
Speaker 1: as exciting as it is, um, working on stuff like that,
Speaker 1: it's like a daunting test, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Like you just mentioned how you know authentic it is,
Speaker 1: and that's uh, that's the really tip our hats to
Speaker 1: the creator and the writer. Pury Hall. Now she's from Memphis, right, Um.
Speaker 1: She's also she also went to Juilliard, so she's also
Speaker 1: like a very um. She's also she's she's it's kind
Speaker 1: of like academic with the way she she she um
Speaker 1: you know, writes writes her art if you will, So
Speaker 1: She'll be the first one to tell you if you're
Speaker 1: doing it wrong. And if you and if you're not
Speaker 1: getting it, you won't you won't be there, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. It was it was a very difficult.
Speaker 1: I don't I mean everything is difficult when you go
Speaker 1: in the audition room, but it was a very long
Speaker 1: auditioning process, probably over a span of like five or
Speaker 1: six months, maybe maybe going in the room six six,
Speaker 1: seven times. You know what, I'm working on, working on
Speaker 1: different things here and there, you know, um, and then
Speaker 1: to and then to get that the dialect down, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Um, because even before we went
Speaker 1: on set and we had dialect coaches, you still have
Speaker 1: to try to go into the audition room and and
Speaker 1: and still try to hit that twain and come Yeah.
Speaker 1: So coming from up top, you know, and from the northeast,
Speaker 1: like I was not. I was not well versed with that,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So it was it was
Speaker 1: nice to go through the gauntlet and come out on
Speaker 1: top because they're really like family. Now, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: in the Valley universe now and then one and then
Speaker 1: you have a lot of beautiful women around you, so
Speaker 1: are they like do you have them coming at you
Speaker 1: left and right, or because I know it happens in
Speaker 1: real life. I see your comments and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: and the women are going crazy over you. So is
Speaker 1: that something that you dealt with on set, like where
Speaker 1: they were getting hitting on you here and there extra
Speaker 1: than anything. Yeah, listen, it was. I mean it was
Speaker 1: definitely very hyesthetically pleasing, you know, bunch of absolutely a
Speaker 1: bunch of a bunch of beautiful women, a bunch of
Speaker 1: beautiful people, you know, black people doing their thing. But
Speaker 1: but I will say that, you know, everyone on the
Speaker 1: set was was kind of like kind of like myself.
Speaker 1: I'm a very driven, focused, focused person, you see what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So it's like I've never really been like
Speaker 1: a victim of the flesh like that. And I when
Speaker 1: it comes to like getting your money and and and
Speaker 1: like further in your dream. You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I take my legacy very seriously. So when it comes to,
Speaker 1: you know, something frivolous like that, you know, I can
Speaker 1: kind of let it, you know, run off my shoulder. Um,
Speaker 1: and everyone around was pretty much like that. It wasn't
Speaker 1: like it isn't anything crazy. Um, we were linking up
Speaker 1: after like you know, like to have after work drinks though,
Speaker 1: so we was all turned you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: were turned down there, you know what I'm saying, smoking
Speaker 1: big drinking. It's like everybody was mad fun down there. Um.
Speaker 1: But in terms of like the extracurriculus stuff like the fraternization,
Speaker 1: you know, everyone was really like like very professional, right.
Speaker 1: You know, do you have to understop yourself if you
Speaker 1: feel like there is a little bit of chemistry because
Speaker 1: that does happen in real life? Do you ever have
Speaker 1: to like kind of like put a block up and
Speaker 1: to stop yourself? You know, how do you do that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: What's you know? It's it's um, it's a it's a
Speaker 1: great thing you touched on because this is something they
Speaker 1: don't teach you in the acting class. Right, is walking
Speaker 1: that line, you know, because on one side, you want
Speaker 1: the chemistry to be real, right, because we're portraying real
Speaker 1: life here, we're trying to capture those moments. It's almost
Speaker 1: like capturing lightning in the bottle, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: You can't capture lightning in the bottle if you're scared
Speaker 1: of going around the lightning, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: But you have to you have to know how to,
Speaker 1: you know, again, compartmentalize some of that energy. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know, you want to walk to the but you
Speaker 1: don't want to go over it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So again, even teetering that line right there is something
Speaker 1: that it's a skill set to be developed. So so
Speaker 1: what is your type of woman? And are you single
Speaker 1: right now? I'm not single right now? But I like them.
Speaker 1: I like them pretty in the face, sticking away though,
Speaker 1: you know. But I mean that's just that's that's what
Speaker 1: I'm drawn to, you know. I will say that I've seen,
Speaker 1: you know, I've seen a beautiful woman in every race, shape, color, size,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So it's like I don't
Speaker 1: think that, you know, I don't think beauty knows any boundaries,
Speaker 1: you know. But what I'm drawn to, you know, is uh,
Speaker 1: you know, definitely a little more currly. Did you forcating
Speaker 1: of your songs on p Valley too? By the way,
Speaker 1: It's awesome. It makes sense you've got some strip club songs. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure, I appreciate that. So they're definitely gonna be
Speaker 1: on season two. Yea, But sep with Uncle Clifford for
Speaker 1: it to get shout out, shout out to my boy,
Speaker 1: and shout out to my boy, and you can lead
Speaker 1: the cool Judy. But now I ain't. I ain't sleep
Speaker 1: while I'm clipping for that. You know, I'm I've always
Speaker 1: wanted to be taken seriously with my heart, no matter
Speaker 1: what it is. You see what I'm saying. You know,
Speaker 1: I understand networking, and you know you can you can
Speaker 1: get a favor here, and then I understand that. But
Speaker 1: like I've always wanted to be taken seriously as an actor.
Speaker 1: You know I also and I see the same. I
Speaker 1: want the same respect as a musician too, And I
Speaker 1: also understand people's babies, right, Sometimes when you do something
Speaker 1: for the first time, I don't know if you remember
Speaker 1: your first you know, your first hosting gig or you know,
Speaker 1: I remember some of my first gigs. But like this
Speaker 1: was people baby, you see what I'm saying. So she
Speaker 1: so I just wanted to respect what she wanted to do.
Speaker 1: She had a very specific way she wanted to craft
Speaker 1: her soundtrack, so I didn't want to be like bombarding her.
Speaker 1: I kind of wanted to, you know, garner my own
Speaker 1: audience first. I want to drop my own stuff first.
Speaker 1: So that. It's kind of it kind of it kind
Speaker 1: of worked organically as opposed to you know, hey, I'm
Speaker 1: just another rapper trying to put my stuff on even
Speaker 1: though Diamond on the show. It's like, know, I wasn't
Speaker 1: really known yet for my music, so I wanted to drop.
Speaker 1: I wanted to drop more and create my own buzz
Speaker 1: first so that you know, it was easy when I
Speaker 1: did it. And you know, we've talked, We've talked lots
Speaker 1: about you know, getting my music on the soundtrack, so
Speaker 1: it's already it's a goal for season two. But I
Speaker 1: kind of just wanted to work it that way, you know. Congratulations. Yeah,
Speaker 1: people call you Diamond because I know sometimes you get
Speaker 1: caught in your character and that's kind of a name
Speaker 1: right there, Like yeah, for sure. For sure, it was
Speaker 1: always Benny for a long time, like all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: Yeah for sure. And it's interesting like that. I have
Speaker 1: some friends that really get upset when when their their supporters,
Speaker 1: um don't know their name, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I try to tell them all the time. It's like
Speaker 1: it's like sometimes when you got when you got a hit.
Speaker 1: It happens with music all the time too. Sometimes you
Speaker 1: won't know the rapper, but as soon as you hear
Speaker 1: the song, it's like, oh, that's you, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. Sometimes they just know your work first and
Speaker 1: it's a it's a blessing to have that. So it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, someone called me Diamond. I look around answer
Speaker 1: to the name, like what's up? Okay, that means you're
Speaker 1: doing a good job. I think, like absolutely, character that's
Speaker 1: all we see, right Mari higwach marity highway cates when
Speaker 1: people call home ghosts. Yea, yeah, that hates that. And
Speaker 1: then you know, not like being an urk. Well, of course,
Speaker 1: who would be Diamond? The way that Diamond is on
Speaker 1: the show, he's you know what I mean, he's the
Speaker 1: best dude on the show. To me, that's like a compliment.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that, you know. I remember I remember, you
Speaker 1: know again, just to go back to like, you know,
Speaker 1: my string and failures coming from the East Coast. Man,
Speaker 1: I just remember, you know, trying to get any job,
Speaker 1: and I remember trying to do something now you know
Speaker 1: here I was. I was gonna do this this acting thing,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. People look at me like
Speaker 1: I was crazy, you know. So so for real, It's like,
Speaker 1: I just remember, I'm not too far removed from a
Speaker 1: space where no one supported me, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So when I have these people running up to me
Speaker 1: here and there you want to picture or whatever you
Speaker 1: call me whatever, it's like, you know, I see through
Speaker 1: all of it for what it truly is, what your support.
Speaker 1: You know. That's interesting because people will look at you
Speaker 1: and be like, hip, are right, he's cute anyways. Right,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter because I'm sure all the time, like
Speaker 1: growing up, you didn't have problems with women, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure you've always been like have you always been a
Speaker 1: popular person, because, like you said, you've had some losses.
Speaker 1: But people probably like, he'll be okay, Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I went through I went through phases, you know when
Speaker 1: I was growing up. When I was growing up you know,
Speaker 1: in Bucks County and I was I was like the
Speaker 1: only black kid. It was definitely I was definitely made
Speaker 1: to feel you know. It was it was definitely like
Speaker 1: a like a negative like ugly aesthetic type of thing,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So I was definitely like
Speaker 1: growing up and it was like an ugly thing. I
Speaker 1: was like the ugly duckling. But all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: I hit like high school or even like a middle school,
Speaker 1: and like people started getting sexually active all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: and now and then it started changing, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Then then I was kind of like, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of like what the girls liked a little bit,
Speaker 1: even though it was new for them. You know, they're
Speaker 1: never like being like a black guy or something like that,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Um. And then I started
Speaker 1: playing sports, right like yeah, yeah, like that got you
Speaker 1: to see how they changed. Even when I was running
Speaker 1: for touchdowns and now, all of a sudden, I was
Speaker 1: like the like the popular running back, so like it
Speaker 1: was different. So I went through phases of it. Um,
Speaker 1: so it is you know, it is what it is?
Speaker 1: What age did you lose your yet? Fourteen? Okay, so
Speaker 1: what's so it had to be to Yeah, so no,
Speaker 1: this was actually when I was in This is actually
Speaker 1: when I went to in Vegas and it was actually
Speaker 1: um um, it was actually to a junior in high school.
Speaker 1: So it was like it was like fourteen and like
Speaker 1: fourteen and seventeen, which at which at the time, you know,
Speaker 1: so I'm I'm thirty three now, so thirty thirty and
Speaker 1: thirty three is not a big deal, but seventeen and
Speaker 1: fourteen a criminal? Yeah, yeah, it is. What's their names
Speaker 1: that we could send the police to go lock around,
Speaker 1: no name, but it was, it was, it was. It
Speaker 1: was very premeditated. We had we had kind of planned
Speaker 1: it out the night before and it was actually at
Speaker 1: school underneath the bleach, not the bleachers, but like the steps.
Speaker 1: We had a portion. Um, we have a portion where
Speaker 1: like some of the classes were over at the college,
Speaker 1: so we wouldn't go walk across the street and like
Speaker 1: if you if you think about underneath the stairwell, it's
Speaker 1: kind of like that that space. Yeah, like we brought
Speaker 1: the blankets and like you know what I'm saying that
Speaker 1: we had planned it all out, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: she knew what she was doing, though it was it
Speaker 1: was in between school. We had like a little dead
Speaker 1: like a dead dead spire. It was at lunch, so
Speaker 1: you clearly did after There wasn't the hot rag after that, right,
Speaker 1: there was. There wasn't nothing proper after that, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying for your sex directed and that yes
Speaker 1: I did. So I brought brought the customs, She brought
Speaker 1: the towels, and actually know she brought the condoms, she
Speaker 1: knew what she was doing. I brought the towels, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know we were prepared, we did. She knew what
Speaker 1: she wanted. Did you know that you were a virgin? No?
Speaker 1: Because I definitely, you know it definitely like that J.
Speaker 1: Cole song forget like I was. I was definitely you know,
Speaker 1: I'm spitting my game, and you know, because I didn't
Speaker 1: want to come off like you know, lame, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. I wanted to I want to make
Speaker 1: my girl feel good. And you know, um, I had
Speaker 1: up a little bit. You think it was obvious. It
Speaker 1: was obvious. It was obvious. Wait, so it was like
Speaker 1: two seconds, like explain how second? Now? You know? I
Speaker 1: just remember, Um, I remember I remember her. I remember
Speaker 1: her getting getting on top, and she was like I
Speaker 1: remember all of a sudden, she was gonna like take
Speaker 1: control of it. You know what I'm saying. She she
Speaker 1: she got on top, she started doing a thing, and
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, it was a few minutes.
Speaker 1: It was a few minutes. You I'm saying, my rhythm
Speaker 1: is off. Though you probably was. You probably didn't even
Speaker 1: have it in. It was probably in between her guys,
Speaker 1: one of the best tell us your virgin story and
Speaker 1: the services. We ate a lot of people that question,
Speaker 1: and this is like this I probably should have a lie.
Speaker 1: I'm keeping it two reel with y'all. Did you again?
Speaker 1: Did you? So? Yeah, I did get a second chance.
Speaker 1: It was much better the second time. But you guys
Speaker 1: in the bed the second time, Yes, we were, Um,
Speaker 1: we were in the house, so we weren't on the bed,
Speaker 1: but we were like, you know, we're on the couch
Speaker 1: floor area kind of bounced back before um, but then
Speaker 1: it was then she was a little she was a
Speaker 1: little promiscuous, so she was bouncing around after that. So
Speaker 1: she kind of so she was no. I remember she
Speaker 1: went to like she went to a upper classroom, so
Speaker 1: she was junior. She started messing around with a senior. Now,
Speaker 1: so it's like fourteen compared to eighteen. I didn't have
Speaker 1: no shot. He had a car, and every day I
Speaker 1: thought she was interesting. You know what's interesting though, once
Speaker 1: I hit that TV she called me up. Yeah, hey,
Speaker 1: big head. This is like, this is like ten years
Speaker 1: later now, so we're both like big out of high school. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I graduated from college, but you know, It's interesting.
Speaker 1: It's interesting how relationships always continue to redefine themselves, you
Speaker 1: know again ten years later, be honest, No, no, I
Speaker 1: did I honestly, honestly, Now she can't, she can't, no,
Speaker 1: she can't do that right now, she's Uh. Guys have
Speaker 1: been what they're doing. They're so vindictive. They'll try to
Speaker 1: like make you fall in love with them to get
Speaker 1: back for the hurt that you're calling them from years ago.
Speaker 1: You know, you know, guys always and I ain't gonna
Speaker 1: snitch on my guys, but I'll talk about myself, you know,
Speaker 1: I always try to. You know, we try to play
Speaker 1: off that that you know, that first puppy love like
Speaker 1: it ain't nothing, because truly, in the grands scheme of things,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's really nothing. But you know, if
Speaker 1: you if you take that moment for what it is,
Speaker 1: you know, it kind of redefines the way you have
Speaker 1: an outlook on life or even relationships. So it does
Speaker 1: it does have an impact, you know, significant exactly, even
Speaker 1: though we don't may not think about the individual, you
Speaker 1: know that experience is significant. I just picture you in
Speaker 1: the hallway against the locker, looking down while she's with
Speaker 1: another guy, no beer, Yeah, no beard, no, Jerry Curl said,
Speaker 1: j get the little one. You probably with scrawny. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: big scrawny back then. Yeah, for sure. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: figure out how I'm trying to figure out how she
Speaker 1: got your number ten years later, child, because I know
Speaker 1: what the same that it was. Yeah, she hit me
Speaker 1: on I think it was like Facebook. It was Facebook.
Speaker 1: You already know. How How does she look? How does
Speaker 1: she look now though, compared to high school? Not the same. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're just gonna say that you don't look the same.
Speaker 1: But um, you know, but you know, uh, like life happens,
Speaker 1: and like stresses real and circumstances happen, and you know,
Speaker 1: people's outlook and perspectives change. So I just see her
Speaker 1: differently now. She was like just calling to tell you
Speaker 1: you got a ten year old son and you need
Speaker 1: to take it. Did you did you practice putting on
Speaker 1: a condom before the first time? You actually you know
Speaker 1: what I did, But I didn't know. I didn't. I
Speaker 1: kind of just, um, I don't even think i'd had
Speaker 1: like seen one out of the wrapper. Um, And this
Speaker 1: is crazy. I didn't even really thought about this experience
Speaker 1: to this conversation. So I'm like, I'm kind of reliving
Speaker 1: it right now. Um I was. I was definitely on
Speaker 1: the fly with it for sure. Um, she definitely definitely, no, No,
Speaker 1: she definitely helped. Yeah, she definitely helped me out. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. She was like, oh, the little version,
Speaker 1: he doesn't even know how to put a condom on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but she made she made sure she put it on
Speaker 1: and she jumped on though. So it got me right,
Speaker 1: jump on that horse. You gotta riding, Yeah, she was riding.
Speaker 1: She was doing thing. Is that your favorite position now
Speaker 1: to the day, to have a girl on top? Because
Speaker 1: that was like your first real experience. I like, how
Speaker 1: how does it work for you? You know? I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm very much like a like like a dancer when
Speaker 1: it comes to it. I like to communicate, you know, verbally,
Speaker 1: but I'm also listening to so I'm I'm definitely you know,
Speaker 1: I'm definitely hitting from the back for sure. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I need I need to see that ass move, you
Speaker 1: know what. Definitely. Um, you know, uh, you know, my
Speaker 1: my my girls, my girls very pretty in the face now. Um,
Speaker 1: so you know, I like, because there's times I gotta
Speaker 1: flip back over. I gotta I gotta look at I
Speaker 1: gotta look at the face like I you know, I
Speaker 1: gotta use my mama tyler. Were there times that you
Speaker 1: had women you didn't want to look at their face? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure. Yeah I'll turn around, you know. So it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, you gotta I forget what I was reading.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, these memes pop across your time
Speaker 1: time about all the time. And someone had said, like,
Speaker 1: you know, would you prefer like a you know, a
Speaker 1: six in the face and the turn in the body
Speaker 1: or a real pretty face and like, you know, like
Speaker 1: a bad build body. So I've definitely had that you know,
Speaker 1: five in the face, you know what I'm saying, with
Speaker 1: a nice booty and uh, you know, you just make
Speaker 1: it do it to do you know, hit the lights,
Speaker 1: turn the lights, turn turn it over something, turn around.
Speaker 1: But I find, uh, you know, I find I find
Speaker 1: lots of different characteristics about a woman sexy too. So
Speaker 1: even if you don't got it all together in the face,
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, there's there's lots of things about
Speaker 1: a woman that that get me right, turn me on.
Speaker 1: So you know you're you're smelling good, your head is
Speaker 1: looking nice. You know what I'm saying. You're doing your thing.
Speaker 1: It's uh, you know what I'm saying, we get faster.
Speaker 1: Have you ever had a woman tricker? Have you ever
Speaker 1: had a woman trick on you when you were younger?
Speaker 1: Like what you mean by like what you mean? Trick
Speaker 1: on me? Things? Trick on me? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah
Speaker 1: for sure. Um. Not not when I was like young, young,
Speaker 1: but when I started getting um. I remember my girlfriend
Speaker 1: in high school was checking on me a little bit.
Speaker 1: But then you know what it was when I got
Speaker 1: to l A. When I got to l A, um,
Speaker 1: I like I was introduced to even before l A,
Speaker 1: but like once I graduated in high school, I was
Speaker 1: introduced to the cougars, you know what I mean. And
Speaker 1: the Cougars were like, for sure tricking on me, you know,
Speaker 1: not then coogers. But I remember, well, we don't have
Speaker 1: to go into the specifics, but yeah, I've definitely had
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, been a part of that,
Speaker 1: And it's like you gotta be you gotta be careful though.
Speaker 1: It's like when you received and I'm sure maybe your
Speaker 1: ladies go through this too, or if you have or not,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure, but like you know, when you're receiving gifts,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, without anything in return, you
Speaker 1: know they're going to be expecting something. So I was
Speaker 1: a part of a scenario where she was giving me stuff,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden she broke it to me
Speaker 1: she wanted she wanted me to show up with her
Speaker 1: at like her like ex husbands like whatever. And I
Speaker 1: had realized that, Yeah, I had realized that her ex
Speaker 1: husband was like, he was someone that was going to
Speaker 1: try to protect his space, if you understand what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And so it was like she was using me like
Speaker 1: a pam, you know what I'm saying, And I thank
Speaker 1: thankfully I was smart enough to understand and said, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna do this
Speaker 1: anymore because you know, if you put me in that scenario,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be forced to defend myself. And now you've
Speaker 1: got two men going crazy at each other, you know.
Speaker 1: So it's like whether they're expecting that or whether it's
Speaker 1: or you know what I'm saying, Yeah, yeah, he's like
Speaker 1: I gotta fight every night to prove my love. Yeah. Sure,
Speaker 1: I wasn't knowing that. So I you know, one thing
Speaker 1: that came to my attention. You had a video that circulated.
Speaker 1: You had an interview where basically I think they asked
Speaker 1: you about going fifty fifty on a date and your
Speaker 1: response I really like, So I want to ask you
Speaker 1: what if a woman did sit down with a man
Speaker 1: and he was like, hey, um, here's my half. What
Speaker 1: you're gonna do? What should she do? M hm? You
Speaker 1: know it's gonna be different from from woman to a woman.
Speaker 1: You know, It's it's like it's it's not one of
Speaker 1: those answers where one size it's all, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? I think if the woman, if the woman
Speaker 1: has in her head where let's let's say, for instance,
Speaker 1: she was raised in a household where she was taught
Speaker 1: that women aren't supposed to pay any bills, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, your daddy, Your daddy teaches you that,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm always gonna take care of you, and
Speaker 1: I take care of your mother, and you know, a
Speaker 1: man that's dead and you should do the same. Right
Speaker 1: and she's put in this scenario that you just presented
Speaker 1: and the man says, hey, here's fifty, where's your fifty?
Speaker 1: You know, if if she's about her morals and she
Speaker 1: doesn't want to do that. She has every right to say,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna pass on this, know, but I
Speaker 1: think that's funny to say, like I'm gonna pass on that. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: what if you did say, I'm enjoy love when it's
Speaker 1: like on the flip side, you know, and and a
Speaker 1: and a practice and a practical. Um. You know, if
Speaker 1: we if we look on the other side of the
Speaker 1: point and we say, um, you know we're gonna be
Speaker 1: in this fifty fifty um, you know it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a true uh, both feed in the relationship.
Speaker 1: We're gonna give and take. You know, we're just gonna
Speaker 1: be a true fifty fifty relationship. And and and you're
Speaker 1: okay with that. You know, you have every right to
Speaker 1: go ahead and accept that. And you said, okay, baby,
Speaker 1: here's my fifty and let's let's run it up like that.
Speaker 1: But not on the first day. Not not on the
Speaker 1: first date though it's not I think you ever asked
Speaker 1: the person on a date is supposed to pay, Like
Speaker 1: if I ask you, like, hey, this is I think
Speaker 1: the guy is always supposed to pay? It depends. But
Speaker 1: if you ask a guy out and you're like, hey,
Speaker 1: I want to take you out, Like I mean, if
Speaker 1: it's a birthday, yes, If you say I want to
Speaker 1: take you out and here's and you set up everything,
Speaker 1: then I do feel like you should at least offer
Speaker 1: to pay because it was all your idea. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna be like, I'm gonna take you out, now pay
Speaker 1: for me now. I was just gonna say, like I've
Speaker 1: done that before where I'm like, okay, let's go out,
Speaker 1: and then the guy would be like, you're not paying
Speaker 1: this bill and we're like damn, they're trying to fight
Speaker 1: me to snatch with just fine, which is fine, But
Speaker 1: I do think you should offer. Now. If you're in
Speaker 1: a relationship and you're like, let's go to the movie
Speaker 1: is then it's just whatever whoever decides it. No, I
Speaker 1: got it this time, it doesn't matter. But I feel
Speaker 1: like on a first date, if you ask somebody on
Speaker 1: a date, that's who pays, right, because it's your idea.
Speaker 1: You're coming up with the whole plan. I'm asking you
Speaker 1: to go somewhere. Imagine somebody asked you to do something
Speaker 1: and then make you pay for it. Yeah, for sure,
Speaker 1: I think I think if we're talking about you know,
Speaker 1: a date, um, the first date, we're gonna be specific
Speaker 1: with that. And again not not to go back to
Speaker 1: an interview, but like you know, I'm just I'm just uh,
Speaker 1: I'm just an old school person, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And and I'm just I'm gonna take care of it.
Speaker 1: That's just the type of way. That's type of person
Speaker 1: I am. Um, And I think that I think that
Speaker 1: it should be like that. You know, women and women man, y'all,
Speaker 1: y'all give us a lot, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: And it's unfortunate that I feel like most people don't
Speaker 1: give you the credit that you deserve. But like you know,
Speaker 1: if if I were to give a woman a seed,
Speaker 1: you know, she she turns it into Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 1: You know, if I want to give a woman, you
Speaker 1: know my you know, my offspring might see, she she
Speaker 1: literally grows it into a into a human, to a child.
Speaker 1: You know, if I buy the house, she's gonna date
Speaker 1: it into a really elevate us. You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So you know, the least I can do is go
Speaker 1: ahead and pick up you know, I'm saying, pick up
Speaker 1: the food tab. It's really not a big deal. So, um,
Speaker 1: you know I'm I uh, you know, I root for
Speaker 1: you know, men like myself to keep shivalry allied. Everyone
Speaker 1: always says, should where his dad? Sho where his dead?
Speaker 1: That don't go out and be you know, get played
Speaker 1: and just get trampled all over. But you know you
Speaker 1: shouldn't be You shouldn't be afraid to try to provide,
Speaker 1: to try to go ahead and pick that tab up.
Speaker 1: It's really not a big deal. Now, I have to
Speaker 1: be honest, I've never asked anyone in the date, so
Speaker 1: I have to never had to be in this. Have
Speaker 1: you guys ever asked anybody on a date? Lorial gig?
Speaker 1: Have you ever asked a guy on a date? You
Speaker 1: know my boyfriend like somebody that I was with, and
Speaker 1: it's more so like let's go out first date. No,
Speaker 1: I'm definitely, like I said, in a relationship, I definitely
Speaker 1: really been like, let me go out today. And again
Speaker 1: he still wouldn't let me pay. No matter what we ate,
Speaker 1: he acts like he was gonna let me pay, and
Speaker 1: then he like walked to the bathroom and paid, and
Speaker 1: I was like like this, bet you know, what do
Speaker 1: y'all fel what do y'all feel about the woman proposing
Speaker 1: for marriage. I wouldn't do that either. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't knock anyone. I don't knock anyone. I think
Speaker 1: it's a new day and age, and sometimes they're stay
Speaker 1: at home dad's now you know what I mean, and
Speaker 1: the woman goes to work. So but me, personally, I
Speaker 1: would want somebody to propose to me. I wouldn't want to.
Speaker 1: I would feel like I'm not forcing, but I feel like,
Speaker 1: what guys really gonna say? No, it's gonna make it no.
Speaker 1: That's my question. You're in a relationship. If your woman
Speaker 1: was to propose to you right now, would you accept
Speaker 1: the proposal? How don't? I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I didn't
Speaker 1: mean to laugh all out like that. It's just like
Speaker 1: he is. Just yesterday my girlfriend proposed to me. But
Speaker 1: you know, you're asking it back to me, makes it
Speaker 1: real all of a sudden. So now I'm like putting
Speaker 1: myself in it. Um, you know, there's two there's two scenarios,
Speaker 1: just like so. So first of all, I don't I
Speaker 1: don't know if marriage is for me. Me and my
Speaker 1: girlfriend talked about the offense, so I don't know if
Speaker 1: I'm I don't. I don't know if I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: married in like period. Uh, but if I'm in this scenario,
Speaker 1: I'm definitely gonna be the one getting on the name. Now,
Speaker 1: if we are in a blue moon, you know, the
Speaker 1: world turned on its head, and now my girl gets
Speaker 1: on one knee and proposes. Uh then which I which
Speaker 1: is one of my favorite beers. By the way, But
Speaker 1: I think that if I think if we were alone, um,
Speaker 1: in in whatever way, in whatever way I could that
Speaker 1: came to me in the moment, I would try to
Speaker 1: articulate that I want to be the one to propose
Speaker 1: to you. So it's not like I'm saying no, but
Speaker 1: allowing me to be the one that does this allow
Speaker 1: me to do this the right way. UM, I think
Speaker 1: it would be important if I was gonna say yes,
Speaker 1: to articulate that I do want to get married. It's
Speaker 1: not like I'm saying, you know no, but it's just
Speaker 1: that I want to do this the right way, the
Speaker 1: way that I see it going down. Um. And now
Speaker 1: I don't think take that you know what it is.
Speaker 1: I just I just feel I feel I just feel
Speaker 1: we you're like, um, you know what I'm saying, I'm
Speaker 1: married to check it out. You for that, and I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: like that's just don't don't know, and the like I
Speaker 1: was just preferred to be the other way around, that's
Speaker 1: all anybody who does that and I mistaken. All your
Speaker 1: parents have been together, they're still married, correct? Yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: so my parents are still together. It's been Um, I've
Speaker 1: been married for I was four when they got married. Um,
Speaker 1: so it's my mother and my and my stepfather. I
Speaker 1: only I don't call him that, call my dad. He
Speaker 1: raised me. Yeah, he's had me even since I was
Speaker 1: like three. You know, they were together for a while
Speaker 1: and then they definitely your dad, yeah for sure, but
Speaker 1: just for descriptive purposes, like you know, I'm just just
Speaker 1: calling it out. So you know, my mom and my
Speaker 1: dad been married for Um so I'm thirty three, so
Speaker 1: twenty nine years now, W have a I have a
Speaker 1: great and then if they still leave each other, you know,
Speaker 1: little notes on you know, on the magnet on the fridge.
Speaker 1: So I have a really great I have a really
Speaker 1: great example of what it's supposed to look like. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well there's some things that you do in your relationship. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, you always got to making that effort. Yeah,
Speaker 1: not for sure, I think, Um, you know, there are
Speaker 1: certain things that um that are like you know planned.
Speaker 1: I try to make sure that, you know, we have
Speaker 1: date night often. You know, we don't just get caught
Speaker 1: up to work because I work a lot and she
Speaker 1: works a lot. Um, so it's easy. It's easy to
Speaker 1: just get It's easy to have your date night be
Speaker 1: a premier or something like that, or to have it
Speaker 1: be like amongst a lot of other people going out
Speaker 1: pop and bottles or something like that. We're having fun.
Speaker 1: But it's like, you know, I try to always carve
Speaker 1: out um, you know, intimate time for us. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Um, you know, whether it's whether it's
Speaker 1: something as simple as going to the movies or you know,
Speaker 1: you know, picking out her favorite restaurant or you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Maybe maybe you know, written the boat
Speaker 1: for a day or doing something on the water. But
Speaker 1: there's also things, um, you know, things that happen in
Speaker 1: the spur of the moment. You know, my my girl
Speaker 1: is a uh, it's a very cerebral person. So there's
Speaker 1: certain conversations that I always make sure that we have,
Speaker 1: um that I feel like she's not having anywhere else
Speaker 1: in life that she wants to touch on. Um. So she's, uh,
Speaker 1: we're very much really call it like like sato sexuals
Speaker 1: also right and like you get on by the mind. Right.
Speaker 1: So there's there's there's all over the spectrum certain things
Speaker 1: that I do you know that makes you I beat
Speaker 1: it down, right, you hear me? You know I sent you.
Speaker 1: He's like, I'm serious, sent Do you ever have tantric sex?
Speaker 1: Tantric sex enlightening? Yeah, you don't know us about this.
Speaker 1: We did have a clubhouse about it. Yeah, pantric sex.
Speaker 1: That involves a lot of breathing and closeness without touching,
Speaker 1: And it's when you feel each other's sexual energies without
Speaker 1: actually touching each other, and it brings you to orgasm
Speaker 1: if you do it right. Um. So our orgasms are
Speaker 1: always like hands on, um, but our organs the stuff
Speaker 1: from But you know, but I can't I can't say that. Um,
Speaker 1: I can't say that, Like, you know, we take that
Speaker 1: step very seriously though, you know what I'm saying, Like
Speaker 1: that that part is not glossed over, it's not brushed over.
Speaker 1: And I can say that, like you know, younger in
Speaker 1: my life it was it was a space that was
Speaker 1: brushed over, you know what I'm saying, Like even after um,
Speaker 1: you know, even after my experience you know that I
Speaker 1: told you about when I was fourteen, Like even even
Speaker 1: like young twenties, it's like, you know, you're so worried
Speaker 1: about getting in there, getting to action that like you know,
Speaker 1: you're glossing over some of the most some of the
Speaker 1: most important you know, intimate parts, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: He's really and I had to you know, I had
Speaker 1: to learn that there's you know, just over my experience
Speaker 1: in life. I had to learn there's a big difference
Speaker 1: between like men and women. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: How we get there if you will, um, and like
Speaker 1: and like for a man, you know, a man can
Speaker 1: were very simple, you know what I'm saying. You were,
Speaker 1: you were in the right dress, We're ready to go,
Speaker 1: and it is there. Um and you know you know
Speaker 1: y'all uh all the time. Yeah, And y'all have enlightened
Speaker 1: me and you know, UM helped me understand that there's
Speaker 1: a whole other side to it. Even even right now,
Speaker 1: you guys are putting me on a game right now,
Speaker 1: because I didn't know that it had a term for it.
Speaker 1: What's it called? Again? And yeah, how did you and
Speaker 1: your girlfriend? Did you approach her? Did she approach you?
Speaker 1: She approached me? Um, she approached me. Yeah, she might
Speaker 1: be playing it proposal now coming. I have to tell
Speaker 1: her not to watch this and get any idea. She's
Speaker 1: a very she's a very direct one she wants to be.
Speaker 1: But um, she's she's she's not really she's not really
Speaker 1: liked that. Um she approached me, I mean at least
Speaker 1: not at least not from what I know, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. But this day she was and she
Speaker 1: and she um, and it was thing like she came
Speaker 1: and said, hey, listen, I want to funk. It wasn't
Speaker 1: like that, but it was like, you know, she she
Speaker 1: made her way over and made it a point to come,
Speaker 1: you know, initiate the conversation, you know, and from there,
Speaker 1: you know, I take it from there. But that initial,
Speaker 1: you know, opening up the door was But how did
Speaker 1: you move from the space stuff being like just talking
Speaker 1: to being in a committed relationship. So we went through, uh,
Speaker 1: a long period of time when we were friends. So
Speaker 1: she approached me. We went on a couple of dates. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we were intimate with each other. Um, and
Speaker 1: developed a friendship that lasted for a long time because
Speaker 1: we worked we worked in the same industry, so it
Speaker 1: was like we were just always we were around each
Speaker 1: other a lot, and and it just organically developed into
Speaker 1: a place where you know, I was I was really
Speaker 1: the one I keep it real. I was the one
Speaker 1: that kind of just I have these epiphanies a lot
Speaker 1: of time in life, A lot of times in life,
Speaker 1: you know. I had one on the East Coast. I said,
Speaker 1: you know what, Tayland, it's time to move. It's not
Speaker 1: for me anymore. You know what I'm saying. I want
Speaker 1: I want something different. Um. So I had another epiphany,
Speaker 1: I said, Um, I kind of all of a sudden
Speaker 1: started I don't know if it's good or bad, but uh,
Speaker 1: I started thinking about like if I were to you know,
Speaker 1: because she was she was easily accessible to me. I
Speaker 1: could reach out and and have her if I wanted to.
Speaker 1: And I think because of that, I was taking I
Speaker 1: was taking her for granted. And I kind of had
Speaker 1: this epiphany where I was like, man, I was like,
Speaker 1: this is she's She's like someone that like I want
Speaker 1: to be with, and I don't know what I would
Speaker 1: do if I if I went away. You know, I work,
Speaker 1: I work on you know, away often, so um, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm in Atlanta five months out of the year.
Speaker 1: I got a new show on Amazon coming out where
Speaker 1: I'm shooting in New York. Uh, five months out of
Speaker 1: the year. So it's like, I would hate if I
Speaker 1: came back and she's brewed up with somebody else, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. It would hit me different if
Speaker 1: like I've seen her on someone else's arm. So it's
Speaker 1: not like it was a territorial thing, like I just
Speaker 1: don't want no one else to have you. I had
Speaker 1: just realized that I want to have you, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, So I want to At this time,
Speaker 1: I was direct and I said, you know, you know
Speaker 1: I want to be with you. Let's be with each other,
Speaker 1: you know, and in different words, but that was the message.
Speaker 1: What about kids? You said, no marriage, But what about kids?
Speaker 1: We have a child together? You yeah, girl, I have
Speaker 1: a son. I have a son. So listen, do you
Speaker 1: think that it's good to keep things private and that's
Speaker 1: why your relationship lasts? Yeah? Yeah, And I think I
Speaker 1: think you chose the correct word. People often talk about like,
Speaker 1: you know, so why do you keep it a secret.
Speaker 1: It's not saying it's like if it was a secret,
Speaker 1: I would have just lied to you right there. Um,
Speaker 1: But it's like, you know, it's I've found that you know,
Speaker 1: working in a public space. You know what I do
Speaker 1: for a living, and any ladies know, you know, well
Speaker 1: what we're doing right now. This is work right now,
Speaker 1: but this is going to be broadcasting to everyone, right
Speaker 1: So we work in this public space. And when you
Speaker 1: work in this public space, you know, you end up
Speaker 1: having extracurriculars that are in the public space. And if
Speaker 1: you look at the whole spectrum, you know, like your
Speaker 1: your your life has lived out where people are watching you,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So I've I've I've understood
Speaker 1: for a long time and I've experienced this that having
Speaker 1: having a space that's private is very beneficial and really
Speaker 1: helps to be able to unplug, you know, for me,
Speaker 1: especially as you know, especially as a black man, you know,
Speaker 1: to go into the world. The last thing that I
Speaker 1: want from being at war with the world every single
Speaker 1: day is to come home for around two you see
Speaker 1: them saying I like to have calm waters at home
Speaker 1: and uh, and I think I think being private helps
Speaker 1: that and uh, you know, I gotta my girlfriend understands that. Um.
Speaker 1: And so it's just it's just a great fit. You've
Speaker 1: had girlfriends in the past that didn't understand that, and
Speaker 1: they want to They want everything to be public. They'll
Speaker 1: understand why we can't publicize everything. And you won't see
Speaker 1: my kids. You won't see my kids on my i G. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: And you won't see my kid on my i G
Speaker 1: the same way you want to see like my parents
Speaker 1: and my I G. I just want to keep um.
Speaker 1: I've chosen to keep the my private life private and
Speaker 1: and everything else. Like we can we can talk and
Speaker 1: we can chat and I talked people for my i G.
Speaker 1: And it's like we can we can do all that
Speaker 1: over here in this space. You know. I feel that
Speaker 1: and I respected. And that's what makes people come up
Speaker 1: with like all their own stories that they create. You know,
Speaker 1: I saw they were trying to say that you were gay,
Speaker 1: and I was like, well, really, I didn't see that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't see it, but it's like, you know, they
Speaker 1: they you know, I remember when I first I remember
Speaker 1: I first started out. I was seeing it here and
Speaker 1: there UM for forward forwardever reason people were associating with UM,
Speaker 1: Like my first show, I came out on the Tyler
Speaker 1: Perry Show, and like, for for whatever reason, he gets
Speaker 1: a wrap like that. And I know, Tyler person, he's
Speaker 1: not gay, you know what I'm saying. But it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, being I was, you know, I was seeing
Speaker 1: around him and all of a sudden it was just
Speaker 1: rubbing off on me and people thought like I was
Speaker 1: gay or something like that. And then I remember, Um,
Speaker 1: I had taken it. I don't know if I had
Speaker 1: taken a I don't know, I don't know what it was,
Speaker 1: but I done something. I was on the set of
Speaker 1: Peas Valley and uh, maybe I was a Clifford. I
Speaker 1: was like maybe. I think I was taking a picture
Speaker 1: of Alphands who plays a little murder and um, and
Speaker 1: people started off with the gay thing again. I think,
Speaker 1: like I think, if you have a space like you
Speaker 1: were saying, Angel, if you have a space that people
Speaker 1: can't figure out, they may just tackle whatever they can.
Speaker 1: They can just create a judgment, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I will say Perry. My thing about Tyler Perry, I
Speaker 1: never think that he's gay. He just knows how to
Speaker 1: pick a fine man to cast in his shows, and
Speaker 1: if he don't pick the most nice looking guys, like
Speaker 1: an array of them, and I'd be like, where the
Speaker 1: hell did he find them at? I want to hang
Speaker 1: out with Tyler. Perry's tact all of it. He got
Speaker 1: all of fine man. That's why people think that because
Speaker 1: he has a good eye for looks as well. I
Speaker 1: think maybe that's what I mean. And he plays media
Speaker 1: so well. People can't get over the fact that he's
Speaker 1: a woman so well. He does because I I think
Speaker 1: media coming back, that's just had to pause up for
Speaker 1: a little bit and then show come out. Then you're
Speaker 1: gonna make a return, you know, as a Tyler, as
Speaker 1: a black man and as an actor playing the role
Speaker 1: of a woman. Is that's something that you wouldn't do?
Speaker 1: You know, because I've heard both sides like whatever the
Speaker 1: road calls for, and then I've heard people say I
Speaker 1: wouldn't do that. You know. It's interesting when you get
Speaker 1: into these questions as an Actor's another thing they won't
Speaker 1: teach you in an acting class. Having class is just
Speaker 1: seen study. It's very like basic even though it's necessary. Um.
Speaker 1: This other side that we're touching on, right Now it's
Speaker 1: something that only comes with experience. It only comes with
Speaker 1: like making decisions. So when you get into this this
Speaker 1: uh this realm or you're booking stuff, you you get
Speaker 1: presented with these options, you know, do you wanna do
Speaker 1: you want to play? And the question is always do
Speaker 1: you want to play something that you aren't in real life? Right?
Speaker 1: Some people have a problem with playing playing a woman.
Speaker 1: Some people have a problem with playing gay. Some people
Speaker 1: have a problem with playing a rapist or playing you know,
Speaker 1: an abuser or whatever it is, right, getting into these
Speaker 1: circumstances that aren't normally yours. So when you're doing that again,
Speaker 1: it's it goes back to like, what what is it
Speaker 1: that you want to do? You know? So for me, like, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I love the roles that I've accepted, you know,
Speaker 1: Benny Um, Diamond uh and my new show Ian. So
Speaker 1: from me, if I was ever going to you have
Speaker 1: to play it all the way. You see what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: what I don't like, what I don't like When what
Speaker 1: actors do is they'll sit here and they say, Okay,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna accept this role because the
Speaker 1: hell of a check and I'm gonna get famous, right,
Speaker 1: because you know val Vallegna blow up. Let's let's take
Speaker 1: Uncle Clifford, Let's take Little Murder or something like that. Right, Um,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and accept the role. We're gonna blow up,
Speaker 1: We're gonna get all the accolades and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: all these positive things. But then when you know, when
Speaker 1: the flip side of it comes and you have the
Speaker 1: trolls that come out of nowhere and people that are
Speaker 1: judging you and saying crazy stuff, you may not want that.
Speaker 1: So then when you're in the space of actually playing
Speaker 1: the role, you're holding back a little bit, actually going
Speaker 1: all the way there. So now you're doing a disservice
Speaker 1: to the to the role and actually the whole universe,
Speaker 1: like you know, the p Valley universe, if you will,
Speaker 1: the whole storyline. Um so I do think whatever, if
Speaker 1: you're going to accept the role, you have to go
Speaker 1: all you have to go in like hats yeah, I
Speaker 1: have I give my hats off to uh he you
Speaker 1: know he's developed into my friend. Now his name is Alphons,
Speaker 1: who plays a Little Murder. You know my hat off
Speaker 1: on Yeah, because he's playing he's playing that role for
Speaker 1: real and he's a straight man with the kid. He
Speaker 1: has a wife and a kid. You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So he's doing that all the way. He's a he's
Speaker 1: a he's a veteran as an actor. He comes from
Speaker 1: he comes from the theater, right, so he's checking all
Speaker 1: the way in there, and he deserves all the accolades
Speaker 1: that comes to UM. So just your to do your question.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm I'm thankful for the roles that I've got.
Speaker 1: I don't UM. I don't see myself playing a woman,
Speaker 1: but that's um. Just like it's okay to to play
Speaker 1: a woman, It's it's okay. It's also okay to choose
Speaker 1: not to. You know. The only thing is as as
Speaker 1: an actor, you just have to make sure that you
Speaker 1: truly understand what you're stepping into, and if you step
Speaker 1: into it, you have to give a percent and cannot
Speaker 1: You know. Will Smith talks about it often. In his
Speaker 1: first role, I forget what it was that he played
Speaker 1: a gay role. I think so, and he talks about
Speaker 1: in hindsight he wishes he would have just did it
Speaker 1: all the way because in the moment he's worried about
Speaker 1: what his boys were gonna think, and all these outside circumstances,
Speaker 1: and he actually didn't do it. They had to cut
Speaker 1: around it to make it look real, and it kind
Speaker 1: of takes the performance down a little bit. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, What about what about full frontsity? So
Speaker 1: I again I would do it. It would So if
Speaker 1: I was gonna do full frontal, it has to be
Speaker 1: on something like a P Valley, You see what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: where it's done tastefully. You know, you'll you'll see it
Speaker 1: there and you'll see the girls get you know, fully there.
Speaker 1: There's full new to be on that show. But it's done.
Speaker 1: It's done to support the story. It's not done out
Speaker 1: of nowhere. Look at it. Tell what if they tell
Speaker 1: you that we want you to be limp and then
Speaker 1: everybody's gonna be like, oh my god, this Penis is
Speaker 1: so small and you gotta ask him to be the
Speaker 1: shower grower first he might be he might be a shower.
Speaker 1: We need to do this Penis and I'm gonna shower.
Speaker 1: I'm good. So you got it, don't worries P Valley
Speaker 1: the middle person de Alley. So that's interesting too, because
Speaker 1: you know this was this was the first show that
Speaker 1: um in this in this season. I was not new. Um,
Speaker 1: we were getting into Diamond storyline and we weren't there yet.
Speaker 1: You know, who knows, maybe second season when you go
Speaker 1: home and you see or he's coming out the shower
Speaker 1: or something like that, when you see him in his life,
Speaker 1: you know, you actually never seen Diamond outside of the club.
Speaker 1: You have not exact but you was about to get
Speaker 1: it in with Mississippi in there. You didn't have to
Speaker 1: get out of there right under those we'll go to
Speaker 1: the breakroom. But I was said, we was ready to
Speaker 1: fight her after I don't I don't want to pull
Speaker 1: it just in case everybody didn't watch yet, but we
Speaker 1: was ready to jump her as a unit, like because
Speaker 1: you're like, girl, what are you doing right? How dare you?
Speaker 1: I think that, UM, don't give it real to wrap
Speaker 1: that up, because I wanted to touch it on, touch
Speaker 1: on the real quick. So this is my first time,
Speaker 1: she said, being a part of a show that had
Speaker 1: so much nudity. So I had seen the nudity writers
Speaker 1: and the nudity clauses and stuff like that. So there
Speaker 1: are certain things that you can show on certain things
Speaker 1: you can't show. So I didn't know if you guys
Speaker 1: know this, if you ladies know this, but you're actually
Speaker 1: not allowed to show a fully erect penis. Said that,
Speaker 1: so you can't show it differ like that on TV TV.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's like so on TV you're actually only
Speaker 1: gonna see limp vix. Yeah when there like when um,
Speaker 1: what's his name Corbyn when he was in the in
Speaker 1: the cloud and he was there naked and the cloud,
Speaker 1: actually I heard it was a fake penis. Virgo told
Speaker 1: me that that wasn't even his real penis. But it
Speaker 1: wasn't hard. It wasn't look in his face. He's like,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't know, but it wasn't. But but but if
Speaker 1: you pay attention to when you watch it, it wasn't hard.
Speaker 1: He was just laying there and it was just laying there.
Speaker 1: So that I wonder why they would make that a role.
Speaker 1: That's so weird like way because that's yeah, and like
Speaker 1: same thing with you know, with the female anatomy, you're
Speaker 1: not allowed to show the lips. You're not like there's
Speaker 1: certain you can show up, but not like you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, like, yeah, but you can't show like
Speaker 1: really in between the ladies can't wet Okay, you can't
Speaker 1: really you can't really get all of it like that.
Speaker 1: So there's certain rules. There's certain rules to the game.
Speaker 1: But to get into you know, Mississippi. Now, one thing
Speaker 1: that I can say about that because there was a
Speaker 1: lot of reaction on that last scene where she pulled
Speaker 1: the gun on Diamond. Um. There was a lot of it. Um.
Speaker 1: So now real quick, before I get into it, what
Speaker 1: do you think, like, what were you what were you
Speaker 1: all so upset about? What do you think that the
Speaker 1: audience was still in that more because she was still
Speaker 1: defending him, you were defending her against him, and then
Speaker 1: she came in there defending him and boud, I don't
Speaker 1: you Like I get abuse and all that, I understand,
Speaker 1: trust me, I'm more I overstand. But like we wanted
Speaker 1: y'all to hook up, you know what I mean, And
Speaker 1: we also wanted him to die. Guy you wanted with
Speaker 1: it asked or we wanted her to kill him. And
Speaker 1: then I think if he's a white boy too, like
Speaker 1: it didn't help. Sorry, So I think and Angela, did
Speaker 1: you see that? Did you see that thing? Yes? I did? Similar, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, of course I think as a woman, and
Speaker 1: then we look at you like that's the you know,
Speaker 1: that's the guy, go to him, and then you put
Speaker 1: it and then you also put yourself in that position,
Speaker 1: like what would you do? But then of course we
Speaker 1: never know what we would do in real life, but
Speaker 1: from watching it, and I always think it's from the
Speaker 1: outside and you're watching something. And that's what makes these
Speaker 1: characters more complex, because anybody could watch something and say,
Speaker 1: if that was me, this is what I would do.
Speaker 1: But the anti school, so let us know with tea. Okay,
Speaker 1: so here's my thing on it. So I have to
Speaker 1: give again. I gotta just give a hat my hats
Speaker 1: off and a shout out to the Tory Hall because
Speaker 1: you know, as a writer, she's very specific and she's
Speaker 1: the one that really made this thing go, you know,
Speaker 1: getting got a hundred percent on Rotten Tomatoes. You know,
Speaker 1: she's the one that really drives this thing. So she's
Speaker 1: the one who wrote that scene, right. So it's so
Speaker 1: easy to give the audience what they want that, you know,
Speaker 1: and here comes down, here comes diamond the night and shining.
Speaker 1: You're gonna save the day, you know, But if you
Speaker 1: look at you know, that would be just doing what
Speaker 1: the audience wants. That's not actually staying true to the story. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and like if you look at if you look at
Speaker 1: you know, the human condition. It's like if you if
Speaker 1: you look at unfortunately a lot of these people, you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of times it's it's females. But even then
Speaker 1: a lot of times these abused go back to the
Speaker 1: abuser like for whatever reason. It's crazy. It's like it's
Speaker 1: like something you know, something psychic exactly. So for her
Speaker 1: to keep it real in that moment, even though everyone
Speaker 1: wanted the opposite, it's like, man, my hat's off to
Speaker 1: her as a storyteller, because I know lots of storytellers
Speaker 1: that would have just given the audience what they wanted
Speaker 1: to a couple for a couple of ratings. You see
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Because then think of the reaction that
Speaker 1: you had it so much stronger, because yeah, because if
Speaker 1: y'all they just would have been like, oh yeah, we
Speaker 1: wouldn't be talking about that right now. Probably would have
Speaker 1: just been another love scene. But like you said about
Speaker 1: all of us, how many times we've defended our man
Speaker 1: that was cheating us, like from everybody else. And the
Speaker 1: more people go ask somebody, the more defensive you become
Speaker 1: of that person. Even when they don't. But being from
Speaker 1: the outside, if I was Mississippi, we would have shot
Speaker 1: that white man buried him and then when they had
Speaker 1: sex and sun like, let's go. I'm here, definitely need
Speaker 1: to be on there. What you don't know about me
Speaker 1: is I created the Last Dance ten years ago at
Speaker 1: Magic City. I retired and we named my retirement party
Speaker 1: the Last Dance Magic and and it and it became
Speaker 1: a thing. So after that, every time a dancer um
Speaker 1: left the club, she had a last dance. Yeah, Bibergo
Speaker 1: and Simone was the trinity. You see how you guys
Speaker 1: had the trinity. So in Magic City we were called
Speaker 1: the snack Tack and we were their very first feature
Speaker 1: performance crew, Like we started that whole feature performance group
Speaker 1: performance thing in strip clubs. And again, uh Contori even said,
Speaker 1: and one of her press junkets that you know she
Speaker 1: created that night at the club to kind of mimic
Speaker 1: that Sunday night that Uh Mercedes had. She created that
Speaker 1: the kind of mimic times at Magic City where and
Speaker 1: she actually said, my name, Gigi McGuire would pack out
Speaker 1: the club right now that I learned something from you
Speaker 1: that I remember my first time going to Magic City
Speaker 1: and I walked in and Gig was in there where
Speaker 1: and she just jumped off whatever she was doing and
Speaker 1: came to get me on and I was at my
Speaker 1: friends and I was like, I was like, this is
Speaker 1: my first time in Magic City. And then I walked
Speaker 1: into DJ was like angels there and then runs over
Speaker 1: there like girl, you shut this your first lives there
Speaker 1: right Still, we gotta have you ever thought about you
Speaker 1: ever thought about coming coming onto the set? I would
Speaker 1: love to. Yeah, on season two see til we're gonna film.
Speaker 1: We're gonna film it this summer, so hopefully, you know,
Speaker 1: the pandemic should be uh, if not all the way gone,
Speaker 1: like you know, much more subsided to like it's pandemic
Speaker 1: in Atlanta. We're open that should don't skip the Atlanta.
Speaker 1: But listen, this is really Funantila. We do appreciate you.
Speaker 1: You were really amazing. I didn't know what to expect
Speaker 1: when we did this interview, but we actually had a
Speaker 1: really great time with you. So we appreciate you being so.
Speaker 1: I knew he was fun because he was break dancing
Speaker 1: at Karen Civils. We have we have fun though, we
Speaker 1: have fun, so much fun. Care and so it was
Speaker 1: the birthday party. It was a great Yes, so so much.
Speaker 1: I've been support to you and we can't wait for
Speaker 1: the next season. We can't wait for the Amazon what's
Speaker 1: this series coming on Amazon Prime? So it's called it's
Speaker 1: called Harlem, and it's brought to you. Tracy Oliver is
Speaker 1: creating it and making goods on it. Uh, great, great,
Speaker 1: great viruses on it, and um, you know a few
Speaker 1: other phenomenal ladies and myself and uh, we're so we're
Speaker 1: gonna resume production, um in three weeks. So we were
Speaker 1: doing it, but we've been we've been on hiatus with
Speaker 1: the pandemic for like nine months now. Yeah, so we
Speaker 1: just figured out a way to get back on there.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna we're gonna resume. You are living a life.
Speaker 1: It's always a bunch of phenomenal women in yourself, you
Speaker 1: know life. But man, before before we before we bounced,
Speaker 1: real quick, I just wanted to say, you know, I've been, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I've been I've been following you for a
Speaker 1: long time. Um, you know, and I had had a
Speaker 1: chance to, um, you know, obviously, get get on get
Speaker 1: on with you here and um and and I'm sorry
Speaker 1: real quick it's we've been we've been friends since Karen's party,
Speaker 1: but I didn't want to butcher your name. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think everybody messes up my name. It's just you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's been extended to Loria and also Gi and
Speaker 1: you know, to have you ladies. You know what I'm saying, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, repping the way you are and continuing to
Speaker 1: follow your dreams. It's a man, it's inspiring. So again,
Speaker 1: keep keep doing what you're doing because I'm a fan
Speaker 1: of all three of you, and thank you for opening
Speaker 1: up your platform to allow me to come and just
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, talk to my ship and
Speaker 1: just just be with y'all for this morning. Well, I
Speaker 1: guess after over there, love ya, we love you, and
Speaker 1: thank you for waking up early. Yeah, we love you something.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you. I hope you doing a person,
Speaker 1: So absolutely we'll bring some blue moon with the oranges.
Speaker 1: With the oranges, I got you